Ruby and my daughter Saira are exactly 1 day apart. Saira just turned 1 on 21 July. Its wonderful that Ruby can already sit so well on her own....great job Ruby, she is lovely! Saira is working very hard, she still doesn't sit without support, her arms seem to be really weak and she hates to put much pressure on them, I guess she still has to build up her strength there and we are working hard with her.So glad to have found your blog....

Well I am sure behind here.For some reason my google reader is sometimes dumping updates lower in my sidebar instead when they are more recent.So ... Miss Ruby is one!Loved the shared birthday montage and loved the video.so tiny Ruby was.Look how far she has come.Even a little container play player now and walking wings!Very cool and very miraculous?I hear you may be seeing Ella Grace and her VERY sweet mom and family.How awesome is it that we connect in these most amazing God like ways.Hope it happens.A belated California birthday wish for the little love.Won't it be great to see all the things to come in the next year.

My Family

Psalm 139:13-16

13 For thou hast possessed my reins:thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.14 I will praise thee;for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:marvellous are thy works;and that my soul knoweth right well.15 My substance was not hid from thee,when I was made in secret,and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.16 Thine eyes did see my substance,yet being unperfect;and in thy book all my members were written,which in continuance were fashioned,when as yet there was none of them.

Trouble

" Trouble is a strange thing.It arrives in dark robes of despair and uncertainty,and not until it is already behind us do we recognize that our unwelcome intruder has been God's love and mercy in disguise.How often the Lord uses difficulty to give us"the best" in place of "the good."Jessie Rice Sandberg

Butterfly

"Anyway, there is a place, and I'm sure it is different for every parent, where your idea of your child having Down syndrome becomes released from those fears and your child is more beautiful than you ever imagined -- like a butterfly."MOM LOOK! I'm flapping my wings like a butterfly!"♥Lianna